Boris Mirkin - Curriculum Vitae #

Professor Emeritus
Deapartment of Computer Science and Information Systems
Birkbeck University of London UK

Research Interests

Mathematical models and algorithms for visualization, clustering and interpretation of data in molecular biology, genomics, sociology, ecology, and other applications; related issues in data mining, knowledge discovery, and in text and mixed scale data analysis.

Qualifications

• MSc, Computer Science (Hon.), Saratov State University, Russia, 1964
  
• PhD, Computer Science, Saratov State University, Russia, 1966
  
• DSc, Systems Engineering and Statistics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1990

Selected Professional Activities

• Member of the British Classification Society (BCS) (2001 – present), member of the Council of the International Federation of Classification Societies (2003-2010)
  
• Organised a number of conferences and workshops including the United Kingdom Workshop on Computational Intelligence UKCI (London, 2005) and 13th International Conference on Rough and Fuzzy sets (Moscow 2011)
  
• Reviewing for funding agencies, conferences and a dozen of professional journals (about 25-30 items a year)
  
• Joint projects supported by invited visits with groups in:
  
  • National Center for Biotechnology Information NIH, Bethesda USA (2001- 2005)
    
  • University of Réunion, Island of Réunion, France (2003 –2006)
    
  • Rutgers University NJ USA (1992 –2008, supported by two grants from ONR)
    
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Belgium (2004 - 2007)
    
  • New University of Lisbon (2007 – 2011, supported by two funded projects)
    
  • Université de Québec Canada (2015 -2016)
    
• Invited speaker at dozens of International meetings including International Federation of Classification Societies (2001, 2006, 2010), Inaugural Conference on Systems Analysis (2015), etc.
  

Editorial board memberships

• 2012 Member of the Editorial Council, Egyptian Computer Science Journal
  
• 2009 Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Classification
  
• 2008 Member of the Editorial Board, Бизнес-информатика (Business Informatics)
  
• 2010 – 2013 Deputy Editor-in-chief, Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
  

Web site including publications list: https://www.hse.ru/en/staff/bmirkin#sci